Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it,… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as,… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
“Paper: Some inexpensive plain bond paper A pad of Strathmore Drawing Paper, 80 lb., 11" × 14" Pencils: A #2 ordinary yellow writing pencil… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
